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Did we expect anything else from the NDP? BTW, the CAW and Buzz "I Support Paul Martin - and want a Senate Seat" Hargrove think they're too right-wing.

Keeping the R22ieme from doing its tour may win some Quebecois lefties to vote Bolc, but will piss off the troops from that regiment to no end. Having a tour yanked is hard enough - having a combat tour yanked when your anglo peers have accrued combat experience is even worse.

Quag - Just a question. If judges are accountable, who are they accountable to and how can a judge be removed from the bench? Can regular Joes within a community do it via petition to Parliament, a higher courty, etc? I've often wondered this seeing as lots of them seem to constantly forget...

OK: 1) Right for Gays to Marry - Done quickly and cheaply without building consensus. May have ended up threatening the Right to Practice Religion and has now opened up questions as to Polygamy and the Tax Exemptions of Churches. 2) Charter of Rights and Freedoms - How come everyone forgets...

If they're there to help coordinate patrols along the border, share information and intelligence, this is a positive development. Anything that interferes with the Taliban's ability to cross back and forth into Pakistan is a good thing.

Wow - the diplomatic version of the famous "Nigerian Scam" letter. After reading his letter to Bush, it's pretty hard to take this guy seriously. I suspect this is merely an attempt to leverage differences in policy towards Iran between the EU and US, with a secondary aim of trying to acquire...

Um...how long has the Darfur crisis been going on? So much for fast, effective diplomacy. I bet Khartoum is quaking in its boots.

Gunnar - Judges aren't selected based on their ability to take the protection of the public into account. They're trained originally as lawyers to look at "legal" logic and not at what it actually takes to protect anyone. They then use this logic to determine sentences, using principles such as...

The problem is that Canadians are used to the idea of having the US partially pick up its defence tab. Now the US, realizing it can be over-stretched in this new world order, is asking Canadians to pick up more of their fair share while potions of the Canadian public seem to have adopted an...

All the political and social wings of Hezbollah are is a means to conduct Psy Ops on behalf of the Military Wing. Anyone who feels otherwise is living in a dreamworld and should take a trip to southern Lebanon, where billboards proclaim the "contributions" of suicide bombers and school textbooks...

Ah yes, because everybody (well, the Libs and NDP) knows that because Hezbollah runs "socials programs", they must share our "Canadian Values". Blind stupidity by MPs such as the two quoted is why the conduct of foreign affairs is left to the executive branch of the government in this country...

I agree with the last two posts. To be blunt, PAff is failing in its job in getting the point across to Canadians while balancing that message with OPSEC. However, that should not be taken as carte blanche to begin spilling potentially damaging data and information on to public media...

Hello Everyone, I was wondering if anyone else has a problem with the bursa around their achilles tendon as opposed to the tendon itself. I already have insoles, and suspect this current bout is from over-training (30min run, 30min Elliptical, 25min row, 25min bike by the end of it). I work at...

I too was weirded out by Mr. Martin's comparison (or rather biased leading question) of McNamara to Gen Hillier. If memory serves, McNamara was a politician and as such was responsible to make poltical judgments about what to do with the military, solicit options from military officers, and then...

Mr. Dosanjh is not the greatest Defence critic we've ever had, and probably slept through the defence portions of cabinet meetings. He has expressed no interest in defence before, and is probably just a placeholder until a new Liberal leader appoints a new one. I have more respect for Pat...

SeaKingTacco - Wow. That summed up my first posting here at NDHQ. I watched as a project went from a good idea, backed up with forward thinking doctrine, into a gong-show computer hardware purchase (with sub-standard parts) designed for the CF of yesterday. I suspect your theory is correct: the...

As a former combat arms guy (infantry), I do see some values in recording attacks using the SAM system in the LAVs (when turning it on doesn't kill the radios!) or even in mounting a camera helmet. They can provide valuable lessons. But those lessons are the business of the CF's alone given its...

From my occupational perspective: never post anything online of an operational nature. Never film anything operational unless it's to keep you out of trouble. In the UK, a soldier who won a bravery decoration in Iraq was the intended victim of an alleged Islamic Jihadist's murder plot. The...

If I remember my contracting course, a regional industrial benefits committee at Public Works or Industry Canada distributes the goodies, keeping it arms-length from the government of the day. However, it does not seem to have had much of an effect. Allegations still abound about interference in...

Close to the mark, but yes, it screams of a bias. I find the whole Lebanon situation really sad. But what I find tragic is that in the Sudan, thousands more have died at the hands of proxy forces controlled by the government in Khartoum. It's all about information war I suppose, and how...